As an upper middle-income country, Jordan also faces significant challenges in reviewing and adapting its employment policy and labour market interventions to the needs of its economy and society. To address these, in June 2022, Jordan launched a 10-year Economic Modernisation Vision (EMV) with three main pillars: economic growth, quality of life and sustainability. Under the economic growth pillar, five drivers for growth were identified. The one relevant to human capital development is ‘Smart Jordan’, which defines key priority areas for reform and outlines a vision for each area to be achieved by 2033. These are early childhood development (ECD), basic and secondary education (K12), higher education, technical and vocational education and training (TVET), entrepreneurship, and research and development and innovation (GoJ, 2022). The vision aims to create one million jobs for young people by 2033, with supply-side interventions focusing on priority sectors and policy reforms to support the private sector and tackle barriers to job creation. The latter includes a reform of the VET system, with the aim of doubling women’s participation in the labour force and addressing the effects of climate change by developing and implementing green policies, creating green jobs and advancing green technologies, with education at the heart of this agenda, as technological innovation and adoption require highly skilled individuals (World Bank, 2024b).
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